Crispy Noodles

Crispy Noodles. It's my family's favorite Chinese dish.This dish is relatively easy to prepare. All you need is to cook the seafood broth and blanch vegetables. As for the noodles, you just need to use Yee Mee which you can purchase at any supermarket.

Ingredients:

1 packet Yee Mee

For the Seafood Broth: 

2 large onions
10 cloves garlic
1 inch ginger
2 tbspn light soya sauce
3 tbspn sweet soya sauce
seafood of choice- I use some Toman fillet cut into cubes, some prawns, slices of fish cakes and crab sticks.
some olive oil for frying
1 tbspn sesame oil 
2 tbspn cornflour mix with lil water - to thicken the broth
1 cube no msg chicken stock & some pepper
3 litres of water 
2 eggs
seasalt (optional) *most of the sauces already have salt in them.

Garnish:

- blanched chye sim/ bok choy
- sliced bird's eye chillies in light soya sauce
- chopped Chinese Parsley and spring onions
- fried shallots


Methods:

1) Blend the onions, garlic and ginger coarsely. Heat cooking pot with olive oil and fry the blended ingredients till fragrant. 

2)Next, add the light soya sauce and sweet soya sauce and mix well. Pour  water slowly into the pot and leave to boil. Add more water if you wish to have more broth.Throw in the stock and boil further. Add all the seafood ingredients, sesame oil and pepper. Crack the egg into the broth and stir gently.

3) Lastly, add the cornflour mixture to thicken the broth. 

4) Place Yee Mee in a bowl and pour the seafood broth over the noodles and garnish as shown in the picture below. Serve hot. Enjoy!